The EU is treating Britain like North Korea. It's time we prepared to walk away

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The EU would have reacted negatively, whatever Theresa May said on FridayCredit:
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Eurocrats behave like pre-programmed Twitterbots when it comes to Brexit. Anything said by a British politician is dismissed as a wishful fantasy. The UK wants the closest relationship with the EU? “Stop cherry-picking!” It will continue to support its allies in security and intelligence sharing? “Get your head out of the sand!” It promises not to erect a physical border in Ireland? “Having your cake and eating it, eh?”

Whatever Theresa May had said on Friday, the reaction in Brussels was going to be the same. Sure enough, it came almost before she had sat down.

Here, for example, is the leader of the biggest group in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber: “After what I have heard today, I am...